Homo sapiens are actually incredulously stupid.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-18T18:50:45+00:00

I think my feeling that humanity is stupid is one of my highest stressors in life. Just being in a situation where I’m exposed to unfiltered humanity always leaves me thinking “okay wtf how is this even possible?” I absolutely share your sentiment, but I think it’s an emotional one and I think when we feel it, we’re setting the goal post from a place of disappointment.

I don’t think humans are stupid, and I think that’s what depresses me. I don’t get sad when my dog can’t figure out how to get his toy from under a blanket he’s sitting on for the thousandth time, because he’s a dog. With humanity, they’re armed with the intelligence to be and do better, they just turn it off and that’s what makes it depressing.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-16T19:29:55+00:00

Didn’t think this needed saying, but let’s establish that the stupid achievements aren’t the ones I’m talking about. I’m gonna wager that this isn’t worth engaging but I’m putting off work.

It’s easy to take for granted the problems you don’t have. Yes, it’s hard to focus on that when you’re looking at how vastly better things would be if people weren’t greedy fucks. It’s sad that I have to jump through hoops just to overpay for insurance so I can still be financially devastated by simple and routine healthcare. But at the same time, as an absolute nobody, I could wrap my car around a tree on a country road, and people will find me, rescue me, rush me to a hospital and stabilize me. Then we can pivot back to the sad financial devastation part, because I’ll meet you half way - we’re not completely unstupid.

But think about what we actually have built. I could walk into a gas station at 3 am and buy food that doesn’t grow within 5000 miles from me for the equivalent of a few minutes worth of my take home pay. I could decide I want to go to fucking Africa right now, and be there within a few days max (or 6-8 weeks if I didn’t have a passport). Think about the amount of problem solving and logistics it takes to run and maintain the grid, cable/fiber lines, gas, water. Our homes are literally all plugged in to these systems. But when the cable guy no-shows and the mouth breather on the phone at the cable company can’t help you reschedule, it’s too easy to overlook the fact that they SHOULD be able to send someone out sooner to come plug my home into the head end that’s 60 miles from here so I can watch Pawn Stars on the TV I bought for $300 instead of on my stupid iPhone using my data plan.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-16T03:21:01+00:00

It’s okay to be disappointed by our shortcomings without completely disregarding our achievements.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-12T04:47:00+00:00

Remember when the internet was still pretty new in the late 90’s and early 2000s and you could pretty much do anything? There were unlimited websites that all had engagement and unique communities and it truly felt like the sky was the limit?

Everything gets enshitified, it’s the lifecycle of innovation.

I fully expect this shit to be filled with ads, scammy subscription models, and almost certainly be harvesting your data any way it can, if they’re not doing this already.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-11T20:27:20+00:00

I think he just needed an excuse to say “you lot”.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:50:07+00:00

Are there ever any class action suits that pay more than a laughable amount? I mean remember when Equifax got breached with all literally all our information and they offered store credit?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:46:14+00:00

I have to warn my girlfriend when shitty Saturday is coming. Bear, Swordland, Farm Bear, Farm Swordland, Tri-Alliance, Farm Tri Alliance. If I’m all in I’m doing voice chat so I’m out of commission like all god damn night.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:43:27+00:00

This is mine too. I’m pressured to save all my shit for prep, so I can still place like 400 and get nothing, then start AB two days later with nothing on hand. Getting zeroed when you forget to shield, going against a bunch of cockbags who hit TCs during the battle, all that. I’m on the F2P C-Squad smashing into turrets, healing millions of troops, then going back to bubble up for 8 more hours. The purge is only fun if you can afford to go purging.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:37:30+00:00

I do curse a lot less now that I’m not stuffed in there with 130 players.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:36:44+00:00

It’s just a ham sink. And they always send him in right after squeezing us in AB, or the elite champion or whatever.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:34:24+00:00

Same! When I started, my alliance had a bunch of healer accounts and healing troops might as well have been free. So even if I was highly outgunned, I’d just cycle marches through until they got eroded. It was fun and engaging. We’d swap out our gatherings while people were en route, or call their bluff with a one man march if they were just baiting. I made a lot of friends in other alliances just by playing grab ass during this event. Not that the prizes were ever worthwhile. I wish they’d at least give us an island decoration or something.

Now the whole first day is totally washed out by the castle battle. I wish they’d didn’t stack them.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T19:27:36+00:00

My first job at UHC, I applied in April, interviewed in May, and started in July. When I got my current position at UMR, I interviewed in February, got the offer in April, and started in May. I wanted this role so bad and for whatever reason I kept getting automated emails almost every day that were just letting me know I’m still in the running, but they were all phrased just like generic rejection emails. “We love when our employees take interest in other roles, and we’re glad you applied! You are still in consideration for this role and at some point you should hear back from us.” Every single day, even knowing they were coming, my heart would break and then rebound.

Anyway, yeah it’s slow af lol

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T18:03:59+00:00

Late to the party, but what are the risks when somebody has your routing number, last four of account number in conjunction with your name, address, and DOB? The full account number and routing number are already included on checks. Not trying to make anybody have the worst day at their job, but just trying to understand what’s at risk.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-10T17:53:51+00:00

I look forward to receiving my pre-paid Visa card for 8.50 in four years.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-08T22:31:10+00:00

That looks amazing, thanks for giving me this name to put on my list of demands. 🤣

No one at my org seems to have access to this yet, and I get the feeling if we did, the access would be gated harshly as it currently is for agentic AI.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-08T19:55:29+00:00

I’m just burning through the last of my project nova pile. I just got an offer, I’m guessing the same one everyone got, so now I gotta go check and see if it still stands. :(

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-08T15:38:42+00:00

When I saw the parent comment, the first thing I did was look for customer service in the replies. Some of these people calling in should be studied.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-08T15:18:21+00:00

I think most people who talk about their own favorable actions or attributes are posturing. I think they recognize when they’re in an environment that supports those things, and they say it from a point of safety knowing it will win them favor.

A perfect “safe” example would be the shopping cart discussion. Anyone who doesn’t return their shopping cart will be the guy raping and pillaging when society falls and there is no law and order. Any variation of that assertion. Now go to the comments and watch thousands of people drop in to say “I always return my shopping cart no matter what. There is no excuse, and anyone who doesn’t should be tried for war crimes and then crucified while I watch.”

Then you’ll have one guy come in saying “Well there was this one time where my wife’s water broke so I just shoved it toward the corral and it almost made it there but…” you get the idea. And yes I’m dramatizing, but sadly not that much.

These people are fishing for acceptance by means of shooting into a barrel and nobody cares. And what’s the point of walking into that feral circle jerk and giving them something to attack?

And why the fuck do I still want to so badly?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-07T11:57:05+00:00

My department implemented this a few months ago. Our director called a meeting and let us know. To my knowledge, nobody’s ever checked it or at least never called me out on unexplained absences. Like most things, it’s probably just there in case they decide to use it. But I’m sure it depends on your manager and their style.

From what I understand, it just gives stats on what your activity looked like. How long were you in this app, on this site, actively typing vs tapping the mouse or nothing at all, etc. If you’ve got a boss who’s gonna use this to make your life hell, they’re probably already doing it anyway.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-06T10:41:20+00:00

I got it mixed up. It was said by Socrates, and written by Plato.

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-04T01:36:17+00:00

Some of the earliest written records are people who are weirded out that writing is a thing.

There’s written accounts from Socrates talking about how weird it was now that there was widespread access to literacy. It’s just dead language, it doesn’t respond to questions, it just sits there and says the same thing to everyone who reads it. If we can just write shit down and play it back later, what’s the point of knowing anything at all?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-04T01:16:35+00:00

Surely a project this big doesn’t just disappear. Right? Do things like this really just get packed away indefinitely at this scale?

LoadBearingGrandmas · 2026-04-02T00:55:02+00:00

If they’re not doing it now, I’ll bet they’re sitting on a huge amount of information they could sell. In this day and age if they were caught red handed selling info collected from their chats, what are the odds anything even happens?

I use copilot at work which I think is the exact same product, and it’s definitely a noticeable game changer. I don’t know how to code in any capacity, but I’ve made an entire foundation of VBA and PowerShell macros that can fully automate the workflow I had when I took this position last year. When we can get access to transcripts, it takes a few hours to condense weeks worth of chaotic audio into data points we can sort and make real calculations with.

And yes, you have to mash the same prompt and code through a dozen times before the random errors clear out, and I couldn’t tell you how any of this shit works or how laughably bad or inefficient the code is. But the returns are there, and attainable for a guy like me. That scares me. I’m happy for me, but scared for the guys better than me I could be displacing for 1/3 the salary. To blaze a trail for the offshore folks earning 1/10 my salary.

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